Media, Mania and the Markets

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Promotion of tip-sheet The Fleet Street Letter.

Author(s): John Campbell, William Bonner
Publisher: Fleet Street Publications Ltd.
Year: 1994

Language: English
Pages: 86
City: London
Tags: black swan, social conformity, contrarianism, madness of crowds, ERM debacle, EEC, Fleet Street Letter, forecasting, gold, investing, Lloyds of London, mass media, Rees-Mogg, Monetary Union, personal finance, economic predictions, EU Single Market, South Sea Bubble, tip-sheet, trading, Tulip Mania

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Foreword......Page 6
Chapter 1: Introduction......Page 8
The road to ruin......Page 10
2) Trust your instincts, not your emotions......Page 12
4) Question the obvious......Page 13
Tulips from Amsterdam......Page 16
The Great Tulip Mania......Page 17
The South Sea Bubble......Page 19
Chapter 3: 1992 And All That......Page 24
Chapter 4: Why Contrarian Investing Works......Page 30
Chapter 5: The Fleet Street Letter--56 Years of Good Advice......Page 36
Chapter 6: A Modern Mania--The Great ERM Disaster......Page 46
Chapter 7: The Media--Crowd Pullers......Page 54
Chapter 8: Investors and the Distorting Mirror......Page 60
The media folllow and exaggerate trends......Page 61
11 Major Predictions 1994-2010......Page 66
The Fleet Street Letter......Page 71
So who are we?......Page 72
Managed Funds......Page 73
UK Equities......Page 74
Fortune Oil......Page 76
Ashanti Gold......Page 79
Applied Distribution......Page 81
Other Subscription Benefits......Page 84
Rear Cover......Page 86